The Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement Party

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Thu Apr 14, 2011 at 01:35 PM PDT
The Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement Party
by Avenging AngelFollow


Over the past few days, Arizona Senator Jon Kyl has become a national laughingstock. Not because of his 30-fold error in claiming on the Senate floor that "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does" is related to abortion, but because he later insisted his lie was "not intended to be a factual statement."

But lost in the laughter over Kyl's post-facto moment of candor is this deadly serious conclusion. In recent years, the GOP has degenerated into a NITBAFS machine producing potent political untruths. From President Obama's citizenship and "tax cuts that pay for themselves" to death panels, a government takeover of health care and so much other mythmaking, virtually every article of conservative faith is a fraud. Yet the Republican Party is neither scorned not laughed off the national stage, but instead rewarded with power.

Here's just a small sampling from the platform of The Not Intended to Be a Factual Statement Party.


"Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves."
"The Estate Tax Destroys Family Farms and Small Businesses."
"Death Panels."
"A Government Takeover of Health Care."
"No American is Denied Health Care."
"The Health Care Law Adds to the Deficit."
"Barack Obama Was Not Born in the United States."
"Barack Obama is a Muslim."
"Public Employees Are Overpaid."
"We Went to War Because We Were Attacked."
"Abortion Causes Cancer and Psychological Trauma for Women."

"Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves." The uber-lie of Republican Party, this assertion long ago debunked by theory and history alike is the centerpiece of conservative economic orthodoxy. (After all, how else to justify a multi-trillion tax cut windfall for the wealthy?) That it's utterly false is apparently no barrier to its repetition...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/14/967011/-The-Not-Intended-to-Be-a-Factual-Statement-Party

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1. "Barack Obama is a Muslim."

Barack Obama is a radical Christian Muslim
He's also a Muslin

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